JOSEPH R. ANTICAGLIA MD Medical Advisory Board A sore throat can be more than a throat that hurts. It can vary from mild to severe, from viral to bacterial and the consequences range from insignificant to life changing. Testing for strep can make all the difference. The throat, or oral pharynx, is a passageway that
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JOSEPH R. ANTICAGLIA MD Medical Advisory Board Medical advances over the past several decades have been remarkable. In the mid 1980’s, a revolution changed the way surgeons treated sinus disease. At that time, it was common practice to cut the skin of the face or the tissue above the upper teeth to gain access to
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Rajiv Leventhal There has been a slight uptick in telemedicine adoption in 2015 among healthcare providers, according to an updated telemedicine study from HIMSS Analytics. The study, which provides new information from HIMSS Analytics 2014 research on telemedicine adoption, leveraged data from the HIMSS Analytics Database and a survey of healthcare IT leaders. The findings
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JOSEPH R. ANTICAGLIA, MD Medical Advisory Board Nine year old little Billy has a runny nose, is coughing and complains that he can’t breathe through the nose. Is it a cold, his allergies, infected adenoids or sinusitis? How should it be treated? The sinuses (paranasal sinuses) are four pairs of air-filled cavities in the bones
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Deborah Kotz With leaps in technology, benefits of telemedicine keep expanding. Shae Reber of Wills Eye Hospital’s telemedicine department takes photos of patient Maurice Floyd’s eyes with a portable fundus camera. When Sonya Shakir’s 12-year-old son Charles developed a raging earache just before bedtime last winter, she decided to bypass the emergency room and head
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Dr. Bobby V. Khan, M.D., Ph.D. Cardiologist Both drugs and nutritional supplements have long been used to improve health and the quality of life. But the traditional delivery of these products—normally in the form or tablets or injectables—can be very difficult and inconvenient for many people. The practice of drug delivery has changed dramatically in
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Dr. Bobby V. Khan, M.D., Ph.D. Cardiologist We are now dealing with an epidemic worldwide problem of metabolic problems such as diabetes mellitus and high cholesterol. At the same time, we are facing a significant concern about cardiovascular diseases such as coronary artery disease and hypertension. We have learned a lot about these disorders and
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By Dr. Mercola About 40 percent of Americans have trouble swallowing pills, even though in most cases these same people report no trouble swallowing food or beverages.1 For some, the difficulty is severe enough that it prevents them from using pills altogether, which can be problematic if you’re interested in supporting your health with supplements
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Joseph A. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory Board Rhinitis: Sinusitis is almost always preceded by rhinitis, the common cold. Hundreds of cold viruses provoke symptoms of runny nose, sneezing, sore throats and coughing in people. Rhinitis is usually afebrile, of limited duration and antibiotics are of no value in its treatment. It is during the first
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JOSEPH R. ANTICAGLIA MD Medical Advisory Board Rhinosinusitis is an infection or inflammation of the nose and sinus. Since the introduction of antibiotics, the incidence of rhinosinusitis has decreased dramatically over the years. With the abuse of antibiotics, using them in cases where they are not indicated, there has been an alarming increase in the
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